United States

Historical American magazines and newspapers from the colonial era through the early twentieth century. African American press, women's publishing, colonial newspapers, and illustrated journals.

What's included

African American Newspapers

Original source material that records the African American experience in the 1800s—written by African Americans for African Americans.

African American Newspapers in the South

Documenting the African American experience in the segregated South from Reconstruction to the Jazz Age.

American Inventor

The history of American invention in relation to technological, social, economic, and cultural change in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Colonial Newspapers

Experience the birth of a nation through the newspapers that recorded it. From colonial settlements and revolution to the rise of Jeffersonian democracy, these publications capture America in transition.

Frank Leslie's Weekly

America’s first illustrated newspaper. Visuals of current events—in print for the first time—gave readers a new kind of immersive experience.

Women's Magazines and Newspapers

The story of American women in their own words. Explore the publications that chronicled the fight for rights, reform, education, and social change from 1830 to 1913.

World War I Military Camp Newspapers

Coverage of America's involvement in the first World War through the publications created for soldiers.

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